Sam Faiers and her young family at home for Christmas as she shares wedding plans with Paul Knightley

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Samantha Faiers’ chic Surrey home couldn’t feel more festive – there’s a full gardenscape around her front door, festive greenery sweeping up the stairs and a huge Christmas tree covered with decorations she’s collected over the years.

It’s her favourite time of year, she tells us, as we arrive for our exclusive OK! photo shoot. And, although she admits she brought in the professionals for the front of the house and stairs, it’s the tree decorated by Paul, eight, Rosie, seven, and Edward, two, that she’s most proud of – despite the fact Edward’s bauble-hanging is very much focused on one area at the back! “The back of the tree is always neglected so I actually just decided to leave them all there,” she says, laughing. “I love doing the tree with the kids.

Every year we add little bits to it. I love red, green and gold, like Home Alone in the 90s.” Much of the 33-year-old’s love of all things festive comes from her own childhood, sharing a bedroom with older sister Billie and secretly opening one present from their Santa sacks at 4am, before nodding off again until a more respectable hour.

Now they have their own three kids, Sam and her partner of 10 years, Paul Knightley, 36, are all about recreating the magic. “Mum always made Christmas very special for me and my sister,” says Sam. “We did the same things, like decorating the tree together, right up until we left home.